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How to set up Zabbix Server

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docker network create --subnet 172.20.0.0/16 --ip-range 172.20.240.0/20 zabbix-net

docker run --name postgres-server -t -e POSTGRES_USER="zabbix" -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="zabbix_pwd" -e POSTGRES_DB="zabbix" --network=zabbix-net --restart unless-stopped -d postgres:latest

docker run --name zabbix-snmptraps -t -v /zbx_instance/snmptraps:/var/lib/zabbix/snmptraps:rw -v /var/lib/zabbix/mibs:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:ro --network=zabbix-net -p 162:1162/udp --restart unless-stopped -d zabbix/zabbix-snmptraps:alpine-5.4-latest

docker run --name zabbix-server-pgsql -t -e DB_SERVER_HOST="postgres-server" -e POSTGRES_USER="zabbix" -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="zabbix_pwd" -e POSTGRES_DB="zabbix" -e ZBX_ENABLE_SNMP_TRAPS="true" --network=zabbix-net -p 10051:10051 --volumes-from zabbix-snmptraps --restart unless-stopped -d zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql:alpine-5.4-latest

docker run --name zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql -t -e ZBX_SERVER_HOST="zabbix-server-pgsql" -e DB_SERVER_HOST="postgres-server" -e POSTGRES_USER="zabbix" -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="zabbix_pwd" -e POSTGRES_DB="zabbix" --network=zabbix-net -p 443:8443 -p 8080:8080 -v /etc/ssl/nginx:/etc/ssl/nginx:ro --restart unless-stopped -d zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql:alpine-5.4-latest

Reference: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/installation/containers

How to install Zabbix agent on CentOS 8

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Step 1: Go to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

Step 2: Run the below commands

sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*

Step 3: Now run the yum update

yum update -y

Step 4:

dnf install https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/6.0/rhel/8/x86_64/zabbix-agent-6.0.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

#Server=[zabbix server ip]
#Hostname=[ Hostname of client system ]

Server=192.168.1.100
ServerAlive=192.168.1.100
Hostname=Server1


systemctl enable zabbix-agent
systemctl start zabbix-agent

References:

https://techglimpse.com/failed-metadata-repo-appstream-centos-8/

https://tecadmin.net/install-zabbix-agent-centos-8/